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This site contains an open-source collection of cloud infrastructure best practices. It provides a high-level view of best practices. Each guardrail is contained in a YAML file for easy reading and sorting. Readers can filter through for practices that are most applicable to their technology/cloud/maturity.
Inter-process communication (IPC) can result in enormous AWS bills if done inefficiently. Recall.ai discovered that its Python WebSocket client and Chromium's WebSocket implementations were calling two functions that were taking up a majority of its CPU time. This article looks at how the company discovered the issue, why it chose to use WebSockets in the first place, and how it fixed the issue and reduced the CPU usage of its bots by up to 50%. This exercise in optimizing IPC for CPU efficiency reduced Recall.ai's AWS bill by over a million dollars per year.
Canada has ordered TikTok Technology Canada to dissolve its business operations due to national security concerns. TikTok says the order would eliminate hundreds of jobs and isn't in anyone's best interest. It will challenge the order in court. The Canadian government will not be blocking citizens' access to the TikTok app or their ability to post content on the platform. Banning the company and not the app could make things worse as the risks associated with the app will remain but the ability to hold the company accountable will be weakened.
The Earth BioGenome Project, which started six years ago, aims to sequence the genomes of essentially all known eukaryotes. While the project is still short on funds and years behind schedule, it is no longer pure aspiration. The project has now sequenced 3,000 genomes and is on track to reach 10,000 species by 2026. Project leaders now hope to meet the 1.67 million species goal by 2032. Advances in DNA sequencing technology will help lower the costs of the project.
The successor to the Nintendo Switch will be able to play current Switch games and access data from users' Nintendo Switch Online services accounts.
Perplexity is finalizing a $500 million funding round that would value it at $9 billion.
Docling is a tool that parses documents and exports them to other formats.
Australia is trialing an age-verification system that will block children under 16 from accessing social media platforms.
This article describes Ente's experience with switching to a monorepo.
A startup's success is not a static victory protected by a moat - it's an iterative process of understanding users and shipping improvements.
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Caitlin Kalinowski, the former head of Meta's Orion augmented reality glasses initiative, has joined OpenAI to lead its robotics and consumer hardware efforts. The hiring is part of OpenAI's efforts to move into building and selling hardware. Kalinowski was a hardware executive at Meta for nearly two and a half years and has worked for more than nine years on virtual reality headsets. She has also helped design MacBook Pro and Air models.
Anthropic launched the latest version of its smallest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, with a 4x price increase on Monday. The company says that the price increase reflects the model's increase in intelligence. The new Haiku model costs users $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. Anthropic's testing indicates that the new Haiku model surpasses Claude 3 Opus, which costs $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens.
A cloned black-footed ferret has given birth to two healthy kits, a milestone that represents a significant step to securing the future of the endangered mammal. The cloned ferret was created from genetic material collected in 1988 and preserved at the San Diego Zoo's Frozen Zoo. The sample was unique in its genetic diversity, meaning its genes could strengthen the current population's health and resilience. All living black-footed ferrets, except for clones and the new kits, descend from seven wild ferrets. The limited gene pool makes the population highly vulnerable to diseases and less adaptable to environmental changes.
Japanese researchers launched the world's first wooden satellite into space yesterday. The satellite is made of honoki, a kind of magnolia tree traditionally used to make sword sheaths. The researchers believe that the material can be used to build structures in space. They plan to collect data on the satellite for six months, and if the experiment is successful, pitch the idea of wooden satellites to SpaceX. Pictures of the wooden satellite are available in the article.
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The OpenAI API has a new feature called Predicted Outputs. It allows users to send content as a 'prediction' and have GPT-4o or GPT-4o mini use that content to accelerate the returned result. Any tokens provided in predictions that are not part of the final completion will be charged at completion token rates. This means the more an output differs from the prediction, the more it will cost. Using Predicted Outputs can reduce processing time.
Software only moves forward mostly because of data. Code needs to understand saved states, especially if that state leaves a system to become distributed. Developers can usually update code, but not the database. Distributed systems greatly increase the complexity of this problem. This article provides some tips on how to update software while keeping users happy.
The EU Commission is planning to fine Apple over the company's 'anti-steering' practices, which harm competition in the App Store. It is unknown how much the EU plans to fine Apple, but the Digital Markets Act says companies can be charged up to 10% of annual global revenue and up to 20% for repeat offenses. The initial fine could be as much as $38 billion based on Apple's revenue last year. Apple is also facing an investigation over whether it is undermining alternative app stores in the EU.
The AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries who pursued unorthodox ideas in the face of widespread criticism. Geoffrey Hinton spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism. Jensen Huang recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics. Fei-Fei Li created an image data set that turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs. This article tells the story of how these figures contributed to the AI boom.
AMD's datacenter segment revenue reached $3.549 billion in the third quarter while Intel's datacenter and AI group's earnings were $3.3 billion.
This page contains the slides and transcript for a talk on how to make good software that covers what software is, good software artifacts, good software systems, programming as theory-building, software and modernism, and more.
Amazon's MK30 delivery drone is smaller, quieter, and has a further range than its predecessors - it can also fly through light rain.
This essay looks at how Robert Caro, a revered chronicler of history, gathers and analyzes the troves of information he uses for his biographies.
Launching isn't a one-time thing - it's a long-term narrative being told to the market.
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Apple has been conducting internal studies on building smart glasses. Apple often gathers secret groups when it has plans to launch a new category of product to collect feedback from. The company prefers to use employees for these studies in order to keep its plans secret. It will be years before Apple will have its smart glasses ready for consumers - until then, the company will be working on a cheaper version of the Apple Vision Pro and a second-generation device with a faster chip.
OpenAI is set to unveil the full version of its o1 model sometime in the next few weeks. The model was briefly accessible by changing a parameter in the URL, but this has since been fixed. An OpenAI spokesperson said that OpenAI experienced some issues while it was preparing for limited external access to the o1 model. Examples of outputs from the model made while it was accessible are available in the article.
Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells - animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants. The team inserted chloroplasts sourced from red algae into animal cells cultured from hamsters and found that the cells continued to perform photosynthetic functions for at least two days. The cells grew faster than usual when cultured alongside chloroplasts, suggesting that the chloroplasts were providing a new carbon source. The study's findings could have major benefits for lab-grown tissues, such as artificial organs, artificial meat, and skin sheets.
China has been revising its Long March 9 rocket over the last decade in response to the development of reusable rockets by SpaceX. The design now looks almost exactly like SpaceX's Starship rocket. China intends to fly the vehicle for the first time in 2033. The Chinese space industry recognizes that the future of space flight is fully reusable, so it is re-calibrating its projects to align more with SpaceX's designs.
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DataChain is a Pythonic data-frame library designed for artificial intelligence. It was made to organize unstructured data into datasets and wrangle it at scale on local machines. DataChain helps to integrate AI models and API calls into the data stack. Tutorials on how to use the library are available.
The xAI API is now publicly available, giving developers programmatic access to the company's Grok series of foundational models. The launch includes a preview of a new Grok model that is in the final stages of development. It has a context length of 128,000 tokens and supports function calling and system prompts. A new vision model will be available next week. Users signing up to the public beta program will receive $25 of free API credits per month.
The job of a manager is to know what their reports are up to and whether they're doing a good job or are generally effective. A manager that can't do that is themselves ineffective - which is the responsibility of their manager and so on up the line. Improving employee metrics tooling won't help managers do their jobs better if they aren't able to notice what is going on. Managers can end up relying on these tools too much instead of doing their jobs properly.
Amazon and Meta's plans for building data centers near nuclear power plants to fuel its electricity needs have run into regulatory roadblocks that have nothing to do with nuclear power itself. Meta's data center faces issues due to the sighting of a rare bee species on the land. Amazon's plans were blocked as it could cause other customers of the nearby nuclear power plant to suffer lower reliability and higher costs. Microsoft's plans to revive a reactor at Three Mile Island are still moving ahead.
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Apple was previously targeting 2025 for the next MacBook Pro overhaul but there were delays related to the display technology.
Gitpod has decided that Kubernetes is not the right choice for building development environments and will now be using Gitpod Flex, a solution that can be deployed self-hosted in less than three minutes that gives more fine-grained control on compliance and added flexibility when modeling organizational boundaries and domains.
The malicious packages have similar names to legitimate ones.
An example of how Python's chained expressions can be confusing to read.
The Delaware attorney general has asked OpenAI to allow their office to review the terms of OpenAI's transition to a for-profit entity.
RCS is still fragmented and feels like a ghost town.
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